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Most of us don't consciously want to hurt ourselves. However, by driving our bodies beyond what they can do or, conversely, by not challenging them at all, we are hurting ourselves.
11 thoughts on "Journey to the Center of the Pendulum"
Yea, I've come to realize I'm not super woman and I don't want to be. Really exercise is about my mental health just as much as the physical. It is a balancing act and I do find myself sometimes wishing to be like others with their abilities but like you have come to realize I'm just me 🙂 Good post as always Lynn.
i've been lurking at your blog for a month now, and i must applaud you, via this inaugural comment. i LOVE your honesty. i think you'll also find connection with my controversial writing. nice to meet you.
"No pain, no pain" – I love that! You know, back when I was working out with my small group and trainer, I hurt all the time. Sure, I was getting smaller and stronger, but I was always hurting. And even though I miss that smaller body, I don't miss it enough to go back to hurting so much. I guess we all have to find out our limits, and unfortunately it sounds like you found yours via some pretty major pain and injury. 😦
And now, as I start back to running, I'm not as eager to run miles upon miles as I am to just run, period. Less miles and no injury? I'm there!
Such a wise post. I'm glad that you're taking good care of your body by finding middle ground for your exercise program. I have bad knees, and if I do to much, they let me know.
Every time I try to exercise, even mildly, I injure myself. My answer is PT exercises to strengthen the stuff around the OA-affected joints. But still, it's important not to push it TOO far but also not to give up completely.
I think Meloxicam is a wonder drug. It helped me when I was first diagnosed with my anterior knee pain. I was able to wean myself off it in the summer of 2010 but it is an amazing drug.
These days I am all about knowing my limits. I have been fortunate to work with an exercise physiologist since this past summer, and my knees are now strong enough so that I can do 30 minutes of interval training on the bike three days a week in addition to a further 30 minutes of steady state work. I also do another day of just steady state cardio, and I now do weight training for my entire body as well. I deal with chronic knee pain, but it is a dull pain–and I can handle it. Plus, not exercising now is not an option for me!
I have lost 16 pounds since this summer, and I hope to lose about 20-25 more. I just saw the physiologist today and told her I wanted to lose over 30 pounds. She told me that it was not wise for me to get that skinny because then I would deal with more joint pain. Now I am worried about being a healthy weight instead of skinny minny!
I like this! Someone said "Moderation in all things – even moderation." I have knees that protest if I ride my bike for ten miles but don't complain if I walk for three. I can also do a 60 minute Zumba class with no problems. I know I want to keep the knee pain away so I'm careful. 🙂
Shelley, I totally get your comment: "Sure, I was getting smaller and stronger, but I was always hurting." What's the point in being so small that you hurt all the time? There MUST be balance. Now if we could only get our minds to accept what our bodies already know. Ali, you get that, too, obviously 🙂
I'm happy to hear from you guys about this subject. I never want to come across as "poor me" because that is NOT how I feel. Rather, I think we all have physical issues we need to work around. Like I said, it's about how we get our minds to accept it.
Thanks, as always, for your thoughtful and supportive comments. You guys really are the best!
As usual your posts speak to me. I could have written much of it myself and reading this post somehow makes me accept my own reality. I take meloxicam for my knees but I have hip issues and arthritis in my feet, ankles and elbows. My doc suggests I can take the meloxicam as needed but the reality is I need it all the time. I don't take exercising for granted now, and I'm grateful for what I can do. I compare myself to me in the past and have to remember to forgive myself and accept myself.
I can relate. I was losing 100 pounds and was afraid to change anything, or reduce any exercise for fear of gaining the weight back. Having an IT Band injury after running Hood to Coast I was forced to reduce my exercise and change it drastically. I did not gain weight, in fact, I lost a little bit of the "running weight" I'd gained. I now have a pretty good relationship with rest days and exercise!
Wow, well written, and it really spoke to me. I see a visit to the doctor in the not too distant future…

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LostInTheMovies wrote:james wrote:It is very difficult to know if the shots of Laura putting on the ring were filmed with Sheryl Lee or not, as there is a shot of her looking down which seems to be her looking down as she puts the ring on - it certainly looks very convincing.
Still, does this mean that the ring was simply thought of as something which 'dooms' its wearer, up until the decision to have Laura put the ring on at the end? I can't see any real suggestion that the ring is simply an evil symbol. The clear suggestion is that the Chalftont/ Tremonds gave it to Teresa Banks, just as they gave Laura the picture for her wall. So doesn't that seem more like the ring is something which saved Teresa? I see the Tremonds as being benevolent, rather than enticing anyone as suggested previously.
Teresa was someone who found out too much and it cost her life, just as it did Laura. But at the same time they were both strong-willed and were ultimately saved through the 'power' of the ring.
Interesting thoughts. The malevolence and/or goodwill of the little man/Chalfonts/even the one-armed man (who seems like a "good guy" - at least an ally of the good guys - on the show) have always perplexed me somewhat in the film. I think the biggest suggestion of the ring's danger is probably Cooper's statement, "Don't take the ring, Laura." Thorne sees this as advice not to take the ring IN THIS CONTEXT only, Martha Nochimson thinks he's simply wrong (after all hes been trapped in the Lodge due to his own inability to make it through the threshold), and I think I've even heard people suggest this is actually the "Bad Cooper" saying this which is the reading I disagree with most. (We know what Bad Cooper looks/acts like and this isn't him, as the Missing Pieces seem to confirm). Of course there's also the matter that Lynch was makin up much of this as he went along and didn't know where he was going. Personally, Teresa's relationship to the ring has never been totally clear to me either. I don't really see any evidence she's been "saved" in the sense of being given greater wisdom or anything. Her relationship to Bob, if she has one, and the Chalfonts - whom she did seen to know - also remains hazy. Her role in the narrative as far as facilitating Laura's knowledge, revealing Leland's evil, and making Leland more aware of what he's done to his daughter - i.e. the more "realistic" elements - are all clear enough. But her role in the mystical Black Lodge mythology of the story still perplexed me somewhat. I'd be interested to hear more ideas on that.
One day I'm going to read a post of yours that I don't wholeheartedly agree with LITM..... one day.
But for now I have always had the exact same puzzlement about Teresa's role in the Black Lodge mythology. Sometimes it feels like she doesn't belong in there at all and had a relationship with Leland (taking him for a moment as 'separate' from Bob) only. But evidence points to the contrary - she wore the ring, the investigation into her murder was shrouded in the supernatural, it wasn't a typical Columbo style investigation. And it's also undeniable that there IS a relationship with Bob ("Teresa was with a T....." - Bob put a letter underneath Teresa's fingernail). The water gets very murky for me here. Teresa's murder has a clear and almost banal motive. Her death feels utterly distinct from those of Laura and Maddy's. It's stark and brutal, not horrifying and grandiose, almost operatic.
I have to agree that some of it is Lynch making things up as he goes along (but doing it wonderfully). Doesn't Leland say when finally caught in the series, in response to the question of whether he killed Teresa (and it's obviously Bob at this point, not Leland), something like, "I guess I kind of sort of did, I have this thing for knives." Teresa was killed with an axe or a blunt instrument wasn't she? There are inconsistencies.
Sometimes I think that Lynch changed his mind between the series and the film. In the series he saw Leland as a victim but ascribed far more culpability to him in the film. But then even in the series Bob does say of Leland that he, 'Has a great big hole where his conscience used to be,' or words to that effect. In 'Between Two Worlds' Leland says that he wasn't the one doing the things but it sounds like he is trying to convince himself.
I really can't come to a firm view on this. Maybe the new episodes will reveal all (although I'm not saying I want them to, I've come to love the ambiguity).
Edit: Note to self - read all of the posts in a thread before posting. Everything I said above has already been covered. Weighing in on the whole Leland awareness issue, I find myself agreeing with LITM again, that to the extent Leland was involved in Laura's abuse (I used to think of it as being entirely Bob), that part of him was so effectively partioned off from the 'good' Leland as to constitute a separate personality, the two 'people' within Leland only dimly aware of the other. I know it's not the prevailing view but at times I see (or prefer to see at least) Laura's abuse as being 100% Bob, just because Leland is clearly at times so genuine about his love for Laura. I guess it's difficult to reconcile that kind of love with committing acts of incest but then I suspect that the twisted reality is that most fathers who abuse their daughters do genuinely love them on some level. Hard to even think about.


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Perth - South African captain Graeme Smith on Monday hailed his team's second successive series win in Australia as the finest moment of his decorated career.
The Proteas, forced to bat out for draws in the first two Tests, dominated the Australians in the third and final Test at the WACA Ground to post a 309-run win and retain their top ranking in Test cricket.
The Perth win made them the first team in two decades to defeat Australia in Australia on consecutive tours, with the West Indies the previous team to manage it in 1992-93. England is the only other country to have done so.
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"It's hard to describe how satisfying this feels, to have done it twice is difficult to put into words," said Smith, a veteran of 105 Tests, 97 of them as captain.
"One win here seemed a very long way off when we lost 2-0 back in 2005, but now we have won twice.
"It's incredible - every single one of the players can feel extremely proud of themselves.
"This is the proudest achievement of my career."
The series win also gave South Africa a six-point lead at the top of the ICC Test rankings, the biggest margin in more than four years.
They have done it by remaining unbeaten in 10 Tests this year, all on foreign soil.
The Proteas have not been beaten away since a 2-0 loss in Sri Lanka in 2006 and Smith said the lead had been well-earned.
"It is nice to go home with a six-point gap and go and play in front of our own fans on our home grounds," he said.
"It has been a long haul away from home, with some tough challenges, and to come through them has been really special."
Smith praised the fighting spirit of his side in regrouping after being outplayed in the first two Tests of the series.
Like retiring Australian batsman Ricky Ponting, Smith pointed to the second day of the Test as the defining point in the series.
The Proteas started the day under pressure after being bowled out for 225, but restricted the home team to 163, before piling on 206 runs in the day's final session on the back of attacking batting by Smith and Hashim Amla.
"Day two for me has got to go down as one of the highlights of South African cricket," he said.
"The way we bowled and the way we batted in that evening session to take the game away from Australia."


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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
don't he look good ya'll?
Posted by kimmie e at 3:16 PM 1 comments
JAy disses Soulja (battle of the millenium) haha
Jay dissed Soulja Boy and DeShawn Stevenson...aha
DeShawn apparently stated that LeBron James is "overrated" (yeaaaaaa right, what crack is he smoking?). LeBron said that responding to this "comment" would be like Jay Z making a diss track about Soulja Boy. Soulja Boy showed up at a Wizards game talkin ish like "he's better than Jay Z." (whoa whoa whoa whoa..hold the phone! I was a supporter for ur little ass and then you go and dis my mans? not cool, not cool one bit!)
The song is entitled "Blow the Whistle"(you know that Too Short beat that kinda sucked, but kinda didn't lol). Listen HERE
I don't think Jay should have wrote this, its not good, just funny cuz he's doing battle with a 16 year old who makes beats for Bow Wow.
Soulja you've lost me son...i think i might have been your only fan over 18..damn
Posted by kimmie e at 2:40 PM 2 comments
Monday, August 18, 2008
John Mayer is the truth. I first heard this song backstage at a show I was doing. Some of my castmates had a guitar and were singing the shit out of it. I fell in love and this morning decided to finally hear the real deal. I fell in love AGAIN! Is that possible? "comfortable" has a few versions and all of them are hot..enjoy (this shit makes me wanna cry, its like the audible version of "The Notebook".)
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Labels: john mayer, new music
Monday, August 11, 2008
Rihanna is Killing the Style Game
Ok so when Rihanna change her style earlier this year I didnt really like her...I still don't really like her music but anyway (stay focused) she has majorly stepped up her style game. I know hella girls that would kill for Rihanna's wardrobe and I don't blame them. From her haircut to her up to there skirts and dressed, I am loving her fashion choices.
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R.I.P. 2 Great Black Men..damn
Posted by Doe Cheese at 9:11 AM 4 comments
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008
click the video and watch
i hope you are laughing hysterically by now, if not you are officially weak, or my friends and i are officially weird. i also came upon this other transvestite, Mimi Plastique...now she is gorgeous, a gorgeous gorgeous man woman. She leaned on my mans in the subway lol..straight outta the chi-town, Mimi don't take no shit!
but what about the tranny on "I wanna Work for Diddy?"...well she's backin that thang up on men in the club and doing other thangs to the thang (lol). Her name is Laverne COX (isn't that ironic)
gotta love em...
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needy niggahs
damn, i gotta start postin more often. i gotta get a camera too (RANDOM)..so i have had a hard ass work filled loosin and gainin money week and i feel kinda good and kinda bad. for some reason i feel like karma is working against me, but i dont know what i have done to deserve such bad vibes. did i piss God off? did i piss you off? who did i piss off? is God laughing at me right now? lol
i can honestly say that i am on my GRIND...and its hard. im so effin tired its ridiculous. i loose money. i dont eat. my hair is flat. my nails chip the day i get them done. im like WTF son? what did i do? maybe this is happening to me in order for me to realize that money, cars, clothes, along with rims and tims are not so important and that i should loosen up a little. eh? or pray a little more? i dont kno, all i know is that karma has got to be at the foundation of all of these mishaps. i try to keep a smile on though.
i mean niggas complain about money all the time. its what black folk do...complain cuz we don't have enough of this and enough of that. i feel as though im always trying to outshine and outdo everyone else because i want to be the most successful. i want to be the richest, the flyest, the fastest (u get the vibe). the question is--is that really how we r supposed to live, or are we supposed to be content with what we have? striving to be the best is what i was raised to do, to b better than the other, to want more and more and more. but is this the best way to live? i feel as though i could never be satisfied. could i ever just be content or would i just be stuck trying to be better and better and better...and what if i don't get better?
its a lot to think about son. right now i just need this camera and this laptop...and this dress i seen and these shoes...o and that new phone and the new plan...and i need another job..SEE WHAT I MEAN?
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I was just reading up on the recent release of Chris McAllister, the former Pro Bowl cornerback from Balt who has been mediocre to bad apparently his last couple seasons there after 8 mostly stellar seasons. Anyway, part of the reason for his release was cap space because Balt needs to figure out a way to re-sign the following unrestricted free agents:
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TV coverage of Super Bowl kicks off super early
It is a day unlike any other in this country (or probably any other), which is too bad for people who sell beer, chicken wings, beer, avocados and beer.
It is, of course, Super Sunday, a day so super that some people believe the next day should be a national holiday.
Getting up for work on Monday is not as big a deal out west, where the Super Bowl itself ends closer to sunset than to midnight, but Sunday's "clock" also means the pregame hoopla starts much earlier here.
Like 4 a.m. early.
If you can handle that much talk about a game that's already been overanalyzed for the better part of two weeks, well, let's just say it might be time to ask where things went wrong for you. But, just in case, we present our annual look at the long(est) day's journey into night (all on CBS unless noted):
4 a.m. "First on the Field" (NFL Network): We're not making this up — the show really starts at 4 a.m., which is 6 a.m. in New Orleans, which means the cameras better be careful not to show too many people coming in for the night. But if you want to know what LaDainian Tomlinson thinks of the Niners-Ravens matchup — or maybe hear him take some more shots at the Chargers — you'll be watching. Melissa Stark is the host.
6 a.m. "NFL GameDay Morning" (NFL): For the fourth straight year the league-owned network will tie its own record for longest pregame show, but for the first time Time Warner subscribers will be able to see what they did or didn't miss. Rich Eisen hosts, which is good; analysts include former Aztecs great Marshall Faulk, Del Mar resident (and former 49ers coach) Steve Mariucci and some guy named Brett Favre, who must be mad no one talks about him anymore so he decided to join the party.
7 a.m. "Sunday NFL Countdown" (ESPN): The normal two-hour Sunday pregame show annually doubles in size on Super Sunday. Of all the features ESPN is offering, one in particular sounds very promising: "A Barrier Broken," which will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Doug Williams becoming the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl. Williams returned to San Diego, site of the game, to reminisce for the piece, which is scheduled to air at about 8:30. A separate tribute feature narrated by Redskins QB Robert Griffin III will include prominent African-Americans discussing how Williams' performance transcended the game.
8 a.m. "Road to the Super Bowl": The start of coverage by CBS, but all that means is someone probably will come on the air to introduce the lineup for the day. The program itself is the annual season review by NFL Films.
9 a.m. "New Orleans: Let the Good Times Roll": This sounds like a one-hour commercial for New Orleans, hosted by one of the city's legends, Wynton Marsalis. Not saying that's a bad thing, especially for those looking for non-football stories.
10 a.m. "Phil Simms All-Iron Team: Super Bowl Edition": The CBS analyst (and former Super Bowl MVP) will feature many of his favorite Super Bowl memories, with many of the players and coaches who were involved telling their own stories. One twist: a reunion of Leon Lett and Don Beebe, who combined for a memorable moment 20 years ago.
11 a.m. "The Super Bowl Today": The "official" CBS pregame show, hosted by James Brown and featuring the network's usual studio cast, plus Green Bay linebacker Clay Matthews. Among the features promised: an interview with the Brothers (and Coaches) Harbaugh; the story of a player from the Ravens' championship team 12 years ago who now works for the team but suffers from ALS; a discussion of player safety; numerous player profiles; and the now traditional interview with the president, Barack Obama (at 1:30 p.m.). There will be musical performances, too.
3 p.m. "Super Bowl on CBS Kickoff Show": The final buildup to the game, including Jennifer Hudson joining the chorus from Sandy Hook Elementary School to sing "America the Beautiful," and Alicia Keys performing the national anthem.
3:30 p.m. "Super Bowl XLVII": The 49ers will be in red jerseys, the Ravens in white. Play-by-play man Jim Nantz calls his third Super Bowl, analyst Phil Simms his seventh. Kevin Harlan and Boomer Esiason again have the radio call on 1090-AM. The game also will stream live on the Internet
(nfl.com, cbssports.com) and via the NFL Mobile app for Verizon customers.
5 p.m. (approx.) Halftime: Beyoncé is the headliner this year, and for those who care, she promises to be singing live.
Postgame: CBS made an interesting choice to go with the Sherlock Holmes-themed drama "Elementary" in the post-Bowl slot. Good show, but just doesn't feel like a good fit here. There will be plenty of analysis and interviews on ESPN, NFL Network and, for the first time, CBS Sports Network.
Oh, and there will be lot of commercials. All day long. Some of them will be funny, some touching, some stupid. But you will be talking about them.
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"Smash" two-hour season premiere, 9 p.m. Tuesday, NBC
Singing divas! Sadistic directors! Crazy love triangles! This polarizing NBC drama about the launching of a new Broadway musical has stars in its eyes and soap on the brain, and while its first season was a symphony of sour notes, it was also one of the juiciest, most watchable hours on TV. And the retooled second season promises to be just as crazy, but half as aggravating.
Some of last year's biggest irritants are gone (Goodbye Ellis and Dev!), Jennifer Hudson is on board as a Broadway phenom, and Katharine McPhee and Megan Hilty will be busting their lungs as they compete for the role of a lifetime. Pay no attention to the grumps and nit-pickers, because once "Smash" gets its shiny hooks into you, everything else is white noise.
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Microsoft's Surface tablet comes in two varieties: a model with 32GB of integrated flash storage, and a model with 64GB. That flash storage is used for everything; it houses the operating system, recovery data, and a page file, and it's also where apps, music, and video (and any other user data) get placed. As a result, that 32 or 64GB doesn't translate into 32 or 64GB of usable space.
How much are you left with? ZDNet's Ed Bott spotted that Microsoft has published a "disk space FAQ" that attempts to tackle this question. Per the FAQ, the 32GB Surface units have 16GB available. 64GB units have 46GB available.
Why so much disk space in use? A confluence of factors. First there's the time-honored problem of the computerized misuse of standard SI prefixes: a 32GB Surface has about 32 billion bytes of disk space, but operating system vendors, in their infinite wisdom, decide that "giga-" does not mean 109 but rather 230.
This is a time-honored inconsistency. Elsewhere in the computing sphere, the SI prefixes are used correctly; gigabit Ethernet, for example, has a raw data rate of 109 bits per second. Hard disks have their aereal densities typically measured in units of 109 bits per square inch. This inconsistent use of terminology, hardware engineers on the one hand using SI properly, software developers on the other using powers of two to make the mathematics simpler, consistently leads to dashed expectations, as hard disks and other storage media appear to shrink when installed and formatted. Although this misuse of SI terminology is irksome, the alternative is felt by most people to be unspeakably ugly. Hereafter, we will use GB to mean 230 bytes, and spell out billions of bytes.
Using this notion of "giga-", 32 billion bytes should come to 29.8 gigabytes, and 64 billion bytes should come out to about 59.6 gigabytes. They should, but they don't. 32GB Surfaces report their disk as having a total size of 29.0GB; 64 GB units as 58.12GB. That's 31.1 billion bytes, and 62.4 billion bytes. Those totals don't even round to Microsoft's advertised 32 and 64GB figures. Perhaps some of the space is taken up by the spare area used by SSDs to extend their lives, but it's a little shady to include that space in the advertised number, since there's literally no way of using it.
Second, there's the way the space is organized. Those 29GB are split into four separate partitions. The first, at 0.3GB, and last, at 3.52GB, are described as recovery partitions. Together, they can be used to completely wipe the machine and restore it from scratch. Windows RT has no equivalent to iOS's plaintive "please plug me into iTunes for I am hosed" boot screen, which makes sense for a system billed as a standalone PC, but means that the restore image has to be stored somewhere. The second partition is a 0.2GB affair, used to store EFI boot data. It's mostly empty.
Third, there's the stuff that's preinstalled. The remainder of the disk space, weighing in at either 27 billion bytes or 58 billion bytes, for a formatted capacity of 24.9 and 54.1GB respectively, is where everything else lives. On a freshly reset Surface, the operating system, page file (two of them, in fact;
pagefile.sys and
swapfile.sys), and Office RT Preview total 7.86GB. You can't really do much about this. Even if you don't want Office, there's no easy way to remove it, as it doesn't appear in Add/Remove Programs.
This leaves 17GB free on the 32GB Surfaces, and 46GB on the 64GB models. That's slightly more generous than Microsoft's own number for the 32GB units.
However, that number can shrink further, as soon as you start to update the device. Every Surface RT has about 500MB of Office RT patch available, to upgrade the productivity suite to the final RTM version. Windows Update stores this patch, and any others, for about ten days after a successful installation. Installing the patch requires even more space. Applying the initial barrage of patches and adding an optional component such as a different language will chew up a good gigabyte of space on patches, and can occupy 1.5GB during installation.
Making this worse still, the Windows Store for some reason retains old versions of apps. Even after an application has been successfully upgraded, its previous version will hang around. This space just goes missing; although the Windows 8/RT Settings app can give you a breakdown of app-by-app disk usage, it only accounts for the current version of the app. The old ones are ignored. As with Office, the basic built-in applications need updating on a fresh Surface system. The result? You'll lose half a gigabyte, maybe more, to these old apps.
How long the Store keeps the old versions isn't immediately clear; the system will certainly retain at least three versions, and possibly more.
As such, even the 16GB that Microsoft promises on the 32GB Surface may not be readily available to end-users. Surface does, at least, have a way of adding storage that Windows itself will never use for its own needs; it has a microSD slot that works with 64GB cards.
There are wrinkles to this support, however. Due to the sandboxing and security used in Windows RT, apps need special permission to use this removable storage. Apps that just have permission to access your music, picture, or document libraries can't use the SD card. Worse, it's not possible to add removable storage to the existing libraries; Windows requires that all library locations be indexed. As a result, it won't index removable storage, presumably on the basis that it might get removed, which would cause the index to include information about files that no longer existed.
There is a trick involving Junction Points to make Windows not realize that the SD card is an SD card, but that is hardly what one would call elegant or easy-to-use.
Is this enough? The disk space overhead of Windows RT is larger than that of iOS or Android, and essentially eliminates the possibility of Microsoft ever shipping Windows RT devices with 16GB of disk space. A 32GB Surface has a lot less usable disk space than a 32GB Android or iOS tablet, and while this can be expanded with SD, that's not as clean or convenient as one would like. If you want to load up your Surface with media, this makes the 64GB device more compelling—but you pay a hefty price premium for the privilege.


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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) The Arizona Cardinals placed Kevin Kolb on injured reserve Wednesday, ending the season for the only quarterback who was able to lead the team to victory this year.
Kolb was beat out for the starting job in the preseason by John Skelton, a third-year pro from Fordham who went down late in the opener against Seattle with an ankle injury. Kolb came on to direct the winning touchdown drive against the Seahawks and helped the team get off to a 4-0 start.
But Kolb went out with a rib injury against Buffalo and had not been able to return.
The Cardinals have alternated between Skelton and rookie Ryan Lindley as they have been mired in a nine-game losing streak.
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The other day, one of our Twitter followers sent me a link, with a "What do you think?"-type note. (Using 140 characters or less, natch.) A click landed me on Harvard Business' blog, and a post entitled "Why Are Women So Unhappy At Work?" The piece (written by a man–just for the record) quotes the findings from an earlier post by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy. In that post, entitled "Are Your Best Female Employees a Flight Risk?" Hewlett writes:
We found that in the wake of last year's financial crash, high-powered women were more than twice as likely as men–84% compared with 40%–to be seriously thinking jumping ship. And when the head and the heart are out the door, the rest of the body is sure to follow.
Hewlett goes on to cite examples of what various companies are doing in order to keep their ladies on board. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't long before the subject of passion came up:
Intel created workshops aimed squarely at retaining one of its most at-risk populations: mid-level female engineers. Exit interviews revealed that many of these talented technologists were leaving not to spend time with their family but because they no longer felt challenged by or passionate about their work. In the 21st century, talented people of both sexes often feel stymied by a traditional vertical career path that follows a straight line up a narrow ladder. Rather, they're interested in and open to lateral moves and a variety of "work style" options, such as flex schedules and telecommuting, as long as these options are intellectually and professionally challenging and/or satisfy personal obligations.
That's surely a part of it. Now, consider this, from Russell Bishop, via the Huffington Post, still rumbling with riffs on the Paradox of Declining Women's Happiness study:
The implication seems to be that if you were to gain more in terms of physical world success you would naturally become happier… My theory is that over the past 40 years, as American society exited the "Father Knows Best" or "Leave it to Beaver" mentality of the 50s and 60s, we seem to have increasingly equated success and fulfillment with jobs, career advancement, position title, bank accounts, and other symbols of success. If you were one of those statistical women who took on job, career, or economic goals as your "symbols" of success, you just might have wound up sacrificing what mattered most in hopes of greener pastures at the eother end of job, career or economic goals. What if you won the race to the top: a better job, increased paycheck, more "toys" than the boys? Did you bargain for all that comes with it? Did you anticipate the sacrifices you would have to make to get there? How are those trades looking now?
An interesting take. Going back to the original post, the one our Twitter friend sent, author Sean Silverthorne writes:
Unfortunately, Hewlett doesn't answer my burning question: Why are women more likely than men to consider jumping ship? Certainly there are career opportunity questions. If women believe they don't have as good a chance as their male colleagues of advancing, of course they should be considering options. But a 2x factor suggests something much more deep seeded. Something about the nature of work in the modern company.
His post earned a slew of responses, citing reasons for our wandering eyes ranging from discrimination from the good old boys' clubbers, to a need for more corporate support for work/life balance, to female "dogs in power that insist on running a place like a sorority." No woman wants to take part in the proverbial workplace pissing contests–and even if she did, she's not properly equipped. But this comment really made me think:
I also think there's a fundamentally different paradigm that can exist in female-oriented workplaces and it takes us away from the whole aggressive, money and progress-oriented approach to work–it is collaborative, nurturing, fun approach which while achieving goals and earning a living isn't centered or structured the same way–it's like a circle not a hierarchy and goes to the heart of our culture.
Lest you think that sounds a little too kumbaya to actually work, consider these points, enumerated by Hewlett:
- Research demonstrates that companies with significant numbers of women in management have a much higher return on investment
- A study has shown that when work teams are split 50-50 between men and women, productivity goes up. Gender balance, the research posits, counters 'groupthink'–the tendency of homogenous groups to staunchly defend wrong-headed ideas because everyone in the group thinks the same way
- Another study–out of France–showed that firms in the CAC 40 (the French euivalent of the Dow Jones) with a high ration of women in top management showed better resistance to the financial crisis. The fewer female managers a company has, the greater drop in its share price since January 2008.
So, clearly it behooves everyone to keep women engaged, in the game. But if a whopping 84% of us are thinking exit strategy, what's the answer?
I kind of think they all touched on a part of it: Hewlett pointed out the need for passion and challenge at work; Bishop noted the inevitable let-down that comes from chasing–and then catching–material things; and Silverthorne offered a tease, earning comments that allude to something deeper, something about the very way in which workplace structures are organized, a la Elizabeth Lesser's suggestion I first wrote about here:
The conversation we need to have now is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.
But in order to change them, we've got to stick around.


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Ned (Sean Bean) makes a fateful decision; Robb takes a prized prisoner; Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) finds her reign imperiled.
There was a lot of build-up in the early part of the season and now it is all about pay-off and the consequences.
In King's Landing, Varys tries to persuade the still imprisoned Ned to tell Cersei what she wants to hear, if not to save his own life to at least save Sansa's. But will he? Ned's honour has led to other decisions that have weighed heavily on him for many years. Meanwhile, Robb is forced to make some tough decisions of his own in order to gain the co-operation of a vital ally and to give himself and his troops a fighting chance against the might of the Lannisters. Yes, this includes the introduction of Walder Frey, that old charmer. He's every bit as unpleasant as one could want.
That might now includes Tyrion and his clansmen, though Tyrion is less than thrilled with their insistence that he fight with them. In preparing for the battle, he decides he could use some companinship and so we are introduced to Shae, a young camp-follower. She is fairly different from how she is depicted in the books, though her scene with Tyrion and Bronn is quite interesting.
On the Wall, Jonn receives a gift from Lord Commander Mormont and has a very moving conversation with Maester Aemon about upholding ones vows and remaining honorable even in the face of a very trying situation. It ties in very well with the choices presented to Ned.
A difficult choice is also put before Daenerys. Drogo's injury has festered and his weakness threatens to break apart the khalasar; the Dothraki follow only strength and Daenerys and her unborn child will be in grave danger if Drogo does not recover. Recognizing this, Daenerys makes a very fateful decision, leading to an eerie, frightening sequence.
But the most memorable part of this episode still has to be the end.
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I'm at MIPTV in Cannes and am incredibly impressed – almost shocked – at just how important many of the keynote speakers are saying mobile is. It's amazing and great to hear some of the real big shots in the media carrying on about the space I'm working in – and it feels a little like 10 years ago when the industry really started taking the web seriously. So brace yourselves folks, I think this is yet another sign of alot of excitement to come.
The other good news was that while all the speeches I saw predicted a tough time ahead for TV, they predicted a bright future. Now, they would say that at a TV industry conference, wouldn't they? But, there was some serious data and thought behind the predictions and again, mobile played a big role in their thinking.
Here's what I took away from some of the keynotes:
TV will not die – network tv will still be effective for reaching large numbers quickly and cheaply. But, he predicted, it won't have the same dominance. Sir Martin predicts the balance of advertising spend will redistribute itself like this: 20-25%, Newsapper 20-25%, Other 20-25% and New media around 25%. He predicted that an increase in mobile would make up a good part of the increasing spend in new media areas.
PC video and mobile content – especially mobile in B R I C s (his term for the Brazil, Russia, India and China markets) – would be especially important since this is where mobile can give cheap access to those who are not yet connected. He pointed out the significance of China Mobile having 450m subscribers out of a total 650m mobile subscriptions in China to emphasize this.
The ability for mobiles to become a distribution and consumption platform for TV/video content is what makes them important in combination and why it's likely they'll survive the tough times and come out stronger than before.
This sentiment was echod in the next keynote I attended. (Official/full MIP blog post on the session here.)
Jeffrey Cole, PhD – Director USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future
Jeffrey's speech backed up Sir Martin's predictions with some serious academic data that the Center for the Digital Future has been collecting for years.
His basic premise was that 'all media survives.' Media never get completely wiped out – they just change and often thier market dominance becomes smaller. He cited that radio was not wiped out by TV and (in America at least) is still a vibrant business, though not as huge as it once was. He predicted similar fates for music, film and newspapers (scarily he predicted there will only be 3 or 4 newspapers in America after the next few years).
TV is the exception, he said – "Rather than shrinking, television (video) will grow dramatically in importance." People will watch TV on a small screen – including long form and series. TV is our constant companion and follows behaviour of people turning to their mobiles when they're bored. This lines up with the way we've seen people using Mobile BBC iPlayer in my work. The myth that people will only watch tiny clips of short-form videos on phones disappears once you give them a means of easily accessing and consuming full length content. (Official/full post here.)
Niklas Savander from Nokia also echoed similar sentiments in his keynote; but this was mainly with the aim of promoting the long-talked-about Ovi store. Which sounded like a completely different Ovi to the one that Nokia were talking about here last year which was all about sharing media created on phones. Strange.
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (US), Total Net Loan Charge-offs to Total Loans, Banks with Total Assets over $20B [NCOTOT5], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NCOTOT5, September 22, 2020.


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"A Japanese walks into a bar."
That sounds OK to me.
I wouldn't say a Japanese walks into a bar. Why is an American walks into a bar okay?
"A Japanese walks into a bar."
That sounds OK to me.
That's interesting... I wonder if it has to do with the -an vs -ese ending. I feel more comfortable saying 'A(n) American / Iranian / Canadian / Indian / Russian / Korean / etc. walks into a bar' than saying 'A(n) Chinese / Japanese / Portuguese / etc. walks into a bar.'
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billmcd's reply, that is.
You're right, the -an ending sounds more solidly a noun, while the -ese ending sounds like an adjective, which when used as a noun, strikes the ear as slightly odd. But it's correct, as long as another more established form doesn't coexist (e.g. Frenchman).


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Today is the Day of the Seafarer and the International Maritime Organization will celebrate seafarers for their contributions to our daily life. Did you know 90% of the objects we consume come by sea?
25th June of each year is the "Day of the Seafarer", recognizing the invaluable contribution seafarers make to international trade and the world economy, often at great personal cost to themselves and their families.
Governments, shipping organizations, companies, ship-owners and all other parties concerned are invited to promote and celebrate the Day in an appropriate and meaningful manner.
The Day of the Seafarer provides an opportunity to pay tribute to the world's 1.5 million seafarers for the unique and all-too-often overlooked contribution to the well-being of the general public, and we would like to do it using as many social media networks as possible.
"It came by sea and I can't live without it"
This year, the IMO is asking you to imagine an item that you simply couldn't live without. Maybe it's your music player, or a pen, or your computer, something you use every day in your work, a piece of medical equipment or just your favourite toy. Now stop and think: did that item, or any part of that item, or any of the materials from which that item has been made, come by sea? The chances are, the answer is "yes".
Use social networks to highlight just how important seafarers are to everyone on the planet, as they transport all over the world those vital items, commodities and components which are so vital to all our daily lives.
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SPARROWBUSH — A man who state police said shot and killed a suspected rapist Friday morning was facing a murder charge Friday night.
David I. Carlson, 42, of Sparrowbush, was charged with second-degree murder, a felony, in the shooting death of Norris Acosta-Sanchez, 35, who had been the subject of a manhunt since Thursday.
Acosta-Sanchez, who was wanted on rape charges in Rockland County, was shot and killed on Old Plank Road, apparently after returning to the area he had fled the day before, police said.
Acosta-Sanchez, 35, of Ramapo, had been staying at a property on the rural road, near the Sullivan-Orange county line.
The shooting was reported to police at 9:30 a.m.
Police said their investigation found that when Carlson was confronted by Acosta-Sanchez, he armed himself with a 12-gauge shotgun and told Acosta-Sanchez he was going to bring him to a neighbor's house and have them call police.
Police said that at some point on the way to that house, Carlson fired two rounds that missed Acosta-Sanchez, then fired two more shots, which struck and killed him.
Police said the Orange County Medical Examiner's Office pronounced Acosta-Sanchez dead at the scene.
Carlson was processed at the state police barracks in Greenville and was being held pending arraignment.
The case began to unfold Wednesday when Town of Deerpark police learned that Acosta-Sanchez was staying at a property on Old Plank Road, and that there was an active arrest warrant, charging him with multiple sexual offenses in Rockland County against an underaged victim or victims, police said.
When Orange County sheriff's deputies came to arrest him Thursday afternoon, he was reportedly camping in a makeshift shelter on the property.
Police said he ran off into the woods, swimming the quarter-mile or so across the Rio Reservoir to Lumberland.
Multiple law-enforcement agencies searched for him Thursday; local fire departments helped out with boats and off-road vehicles, and state police scoured the woods in helicopters, but the search was called off Thursday night when it got dark.
On Friday morning, Acosta-Sanchez returned, and was shot at about 9:20 a.m.
Police shut off a section of the road near the county line as they interviewed people behind the police tape and searched for evidence. State police investigators interviewed residents of the road, and later, prosecutors came to hand out grand jury subpoenas to some of them.
Judy Metzroth, who lives near the scene, said she was frightened that something like this had occurred on the normally quiet road she has called home for 16 years.
"Nothing ever happens here," she said.
On Thursday night, as the search was going on, she locked her windows. She had applied for a pistol permit already, but was told it would take about six months to be approved.
After hanging around the scene for a while, she left, saying she was off to buy a shotgun.
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SPARROWBUSH — A man who state police said shot and killed a suspected rapist Friday morning was facing a murder charge Friday night.


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Many Thanks for my new wallett,. Excellent quality, looks top class and good service to . Kind Regards,. Lynne.
Excellent quality looks great, well pleased
Good quality-very happy. One thing I would say as feedback is that the silicone or plastic pouch the phone sits into is not as good a quality as the one that comes with the phone. Very minor but noticeable all the same. As i said very minor-it is a very nice product.
Good quality product.
Haven't yet used it as its an Xmas present, however it's good quality and doesn't look cheap. Impressed. Just hope it fits my partners phone fine, but I'm sure it will
It is a very good leather mobile cover. The manufacturing quality is very high... It is quit clear that it is handmade. I give it only 4 starts because I found the cover a bit hard and not so flixable to bend, I think it would be more flixable.


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Yonkers NY: Frank Pepe's in the 'New York Times'
The New York Times takes a look at the newish Frank Pepe's branch that opened in Yonkers in early November of last year:
The pizza is very good — although you have to be careful what you order. The original tomato pie, a Spartan exercise in dough topped only with crushed tomatoes and a sprinkling of Romano cheese, tasted of good-quality canned tomatoes and little else. That same pie with mozzarella was better, and one with mozzarella and spicy, fennel-spiked pepperoni was downright delicious. A version with plump marinated shrimp was also surprisingly good. And super-strong anchovies on another made the anchovy lover in our group very happy indeed.
This makes it the first New Haven place to encroach upon New York territory. Not that anyone's complaining. Bring it on.
Frank Pepe's Pizzeria (Yonkers)
1955 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers NY 10710 (at Heights Drive; map) 914-961-8284; pepespizzeria.com
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